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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Re: The free market (and lemons)
Message-ID: <915@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 18:13:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 18:13:34 1985
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In article <28200390@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>
>The reason these areas are different is that here the government,
>in protecting its own prerogatives (which all organizations tend to
>do), tends to defend the citizen. The same is true of any mafia godfather.

	Indeed, that is why, in the absence of any government, the Mob
or its equivalent tends to *become* the government! It has happened in
th past: that is a large part of how feudalism developed in Medieval
Europe!
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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